Academic Scientific JournalsGame localization pitfalls: Translation and multitextuality
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https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2019.4.04Keywords:
games localization, localization, translation approaches, standard approach, creative approach, mixed approach, multitextualityAbstract
From the translator’s perspective multitextuality is one of the major challenges of video games localization. The translator needs to cope with texts spanning from the most standard, such as error messages, to the most creative, for example poems. Although every game is unique, it is possible to observe some commonalities with respect to textual genres and text types in video games. Various text types play diverse functions, their content is outstandingly multifarious and they include both standard and creative style and terminology. All of this leads to an assertion that they call for different translation approaches: a standard approach, a creative approach or a mixed approach.
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